FIRST Parody Fatigue and other Media Things [long]

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by Metonym

What I am afraid of is that these contests provide students with a few one off opportunities to make a video and then forget about making more videos because their team might not think it is important enough or because they lack the drive to continue. FIRST will always be robots first, but if they get past that phase and make videos on a regular basis I will be ecstatic because it means people are working to achieve something that I didn't when I was a student.

Well, I can tell you that when we started our new team in September, I asked for a show of hands who would be interested in doing some video or photography work on the team. There was not a single hand raised. I think because nobody really knew why they would want to make a video.

Now looking back, students have seen that there are many opportunities to make videos, not even counting the song parody contest:
- safety animation
- chairman's video
- video to loop on a display in our pit or at a community event
- robot reveal video
- recordings of workshops or other "seminars" we have
- video tutorials, for example to set up our image processing software on a Raspberry Pi

We have purchased some team licenses of Premiere Elements and have at least one student and two mentors interested in video production work. Next year we should be able to push this even more.